COMMENT POSTED TO AN ARTICLE BY FELIKS GARCIA IN THE
INDEPENDENT
Unless you believe evil always prevails, bloody Hillary is
going to lose and lose big.
Her life is filled with more ugly tales than Madame
Tussaud's Chamber of Horrors, and an awful lot of it is coming out despite her
supporters' desperate efforts to suppress it.
She has nothing to offer besides war on behalf of the same
group of thugs who've driven the US to mass murder for the last decade and a
half.
Trump is not a prince, but he does have some remarkable
qualities as the personal success he's enjoyed for decades testifies.
It will take a person of this nature to deal with the
accumulated horrors of the Pentagon and 17 security agencies and a vast horde
of special interests.
Even a modest gain in peace and reason in American foreign
policy is a wonderful goal, whatever else may come out of his mouth occasionally.
Hillary offers only war, only continued killing on a vast
scale, and the most corrupt personal life ever to seek great power in America.
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Response to another
reader’s comment about the strange
nature of American politics:
One, because they are never told the truth by the mainline
press which is allied to the interests of the powers that be.
Two, because the actual political process is seriously bent
everywhere. How can it be called democratic to have a 35% PM like David
Cameron? It's not. Indeed, President Assad of Syria has far greater support.
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Response to another
reader on polls:
You have a point, but polls do mean something. The trouble, as few seem to understand, polling is as much an art as a science.
You have a point, but polls do mean something. The trouble, as few seem to understand, polling is as much an art as a science.
Getting a representative sample is not easy, and it likely
has become even harder with technology, as with landline phones disappearing.
And asking the right question with the right words is
definitely an art. Each possible choice of wording carries a new set of
connotations and will elicit a different set of responses.
It is tricky stuff, and Cameron was depending upon a
pollster already demonstrated as less than astute, when he foolishly started
his evening at the close of polls with toasts and celebrations in 10 Downing.
At least, a very foolish and unpleasant man has lost power,
and that is a blessing.
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One further note on polls.
Various newspapers and broadcasters actually go out of their
way to commission "favorable" polls, not caring in the least whether
they attempt to be scrupulously accurate.
This is quite simply a propaganda tool, and I've noted its
being used in British papers at times. It is heavily used in the US where the
press makes little pretense about objectivity or fairness.
We have a good example at work right now. A former,
well-regarded Secret Service agent has written a book about how nasty things
were in the White House under the Clintons.
It is already a best seller, but the major American networks
have already refused to have the author on for an interview, as is the common
practice with best-selling books. This is the purest prejudice and Clinton
influence-peddling.
But we know from a Harvard School of Government study that
the entire American press simply went silent about Bernie Sanders at key times.
Without them, your voice has little reach.
